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Holiday Tales with Stanley Hayami

2021年12月18日 - 2021年12月19日

In this immersive experience, get transported back to the 1940s with actor Kurt Sanchez Kanazawa, the voice of Stanley Hayami in A Life in Pieces, as he reads aloud from the letters and diaries of Stanley. Diary entries and letters will be selected from his time during the winter holidays in the Heart Mountain concentration camp and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Please note there will be three similar readings...

Healthy Japanese Home Cooking Workshop with Azusa Oda

2020年07月18日

$25 general, $20 member Learn how to cook a basic Japanese menu! In this virtual workshop, cookbook author, food blogger, and designer Azusa Oda will teach you how to cut down food waste and make full use of all the ingredients to make a basic, healthy, and delicious meal. Participants will start with making dashi (soup stock) then use the leftovers to make katsuo denbu (bonito rice topping). They will then mak...

Fighting for Democracy

2019年08月10日 - 2020年01月05日

We, the people, shape democracy; I, too, can shape democracy; Those who have struggled for freedom and equality have extended democracy’s reach for all. Fighting for Democracy: Who is the “We” in “We, the People”? is an experimental exhibition based on these fundamental principles. It features seven real people and traces their stories throughout the pre-war, World War II, and post-war periods as examples of th...

"At First Light"—Opening Day Discussion

2019年05月25日

To commemorate the opening day of the exhibition At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America, JANM will host Visual Communications (VC) co-founders and exhibition curators Duane Kubo, Robert Nakamura, and Eddie Wong in a panel discussion about the history of VC and the creation of this show. They will be joined by scholar, author, producer, and JANM Chief Curator Karen Ishizuka, who will moderate th...

"Sashiko" and "Boro" Traditions Workshop

2019年03月17日

SOLD OUT In this one-day workshop led by Glennis Dolce, we will be mending and creatively reusing the fabrics of our lives using sashiko stitching to make a cloth that can be used as a scarf, a wall hanging, or used for making some other useful item of your choice. The concepts of mottainai (don’t waste!) and mu kara yuu o umo (out of nothing, something is born) as it relates to boro textiles (tattered and sti...

Contested Histories at Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center (Portland, OR)

2018年11月01日 - 2018年11月04日

TRAVELING DISPLAYOregon Nikkei Legacy CenterPortland, ORIncluded with museum admissionThursday: 11 a.m.–7 p.m. • FREEFriday–Saturday: 11 a.m.–3 p.m.Sunday: 12 p.m.–3 p.m. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II Am...

Contested Histories at J-Sei (Emeryville, CA)

2018年09月29日 - 2018年10月07日

TRAVELING DISPLAYJ-SeiEmeryville, CASaturday–Sunday: 11 a.m.–4 p.m.Monday–Friday: 2 p.m.–5 p.m. and by appointment Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first book...

Contested Histories at 2018 Minidoka Pilgrimage (Twin Falls, ID)

2018年07月06日

TRAVELING DISPLAY2018 Minidoka PilgrimageTwin Falls, ID9 a.m.–5 p.m. Allen Hendershott Eaton’s historic 1952 book, Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, explored art and craft objects created by persons of Japanese descent while wrongfully incarcerated in the World War II American concentration camps. It was one of the first books to examine any aspect of the lives of the 12...

"Moving Day"

2017年03月23日 - 2017年08月11日

If you missed the program, you can watch it online on JANM’s YouTube channel. March 23 – August 11, 2017 Daily from sunset to midnight In conjunction with the exhibition Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066, JANM presents Moving Day, an outdoor public art installation. The work consists of a series of projections of the Civilian Exclusion Orders that were publicly poste...

"Above the Fold" Lecture by Robert Lang

2016年07月16日

SOLD OUT The last 15 years have been witness to a revolution in the application of mathematical techniques to origami, the centuries-old Japanese art of paper-folding. Exhibiting artist Robert J. Lang is recognized as one of the foremost origami artists in the world as well as a pioneer in computational origami and the development of formal design algorithms for folding. In this talk, he will describe ho...